FFF Results Post #302 -- Sous-Estimé
On Friday, CR readers were asked, "Excluding Jacques Tardi, Moebius, Marjane Satrapi, Lewis Trondheim, Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo and Herge, Pick Five Cartoonists Primarily Known For Work In The French-Language Market You Believe Have A Potential Bigger Audience For Themselves In English-Language Comics Than They Currently Have In English-Language Comics." This is how they responded.

1. Marc Caro. Before he quit comics to do movies (co-director of Delicatessen). Late 70s. Pure nasty unadulterated no-future punk comics, up there with Jimbo.
2. Christophe Blain is the most virtuoso French cartoonist of his generation. This lofty statement can easily confirmed by flipping through, in English, Dungeon, Early Years vol. 1 & 2.
3. Igor Kordey should leave bad French genre publishers and come back to US mainstream, super heroes comics. His X-Men were sexy and awesome.
4. Elvis Studio. Mostly non-narrative-with-one-foot-in-contemporary-art stuff. Elvis Road, published by Buenaventura Press is, to my knowledge, their only book available to an American audience. There should be more.
5. Riad Sattouf. Most corrosive and influential satirist, far beyond the sphere of comic book readers. Equal parts Johnny Ryan and Garry Trudeau. Idiotically scorned on your website by Bart Beaty (on puritan grounds, no less!). Brand of caustic humor & host of cultural references probably define the limits beyond which a French book might be, despite of its inherent qualities, untranslatable.